Lexie Bean on Nostr: Independent media is suuuuuffering in print & we have had to increasingly rely on ...
Independent media is suuuuuffering in print & we have had to increasingly rely on digital. However, digital comes with a whole other wave of problems and we gotta be responsible with it for our future.
Here is a pic of me with the first time a piece I put together was published in an indie magazine's print and online edition. And unfortunately Bitch Magazine no longer exists in either format. Everywhere else I have written for has had incredibly high staff turn-over due to the instability. It is becoming increasingly common-place that digital publishers I’ve previously worked with disappear articles, essays, and dialogues created by myself and others. Pay-rates, AI, and click-bait are not sustainable for many of the experienced or skilled writers to maintain their career or adequately produce long-form, investigative, or even nuanced work. And, especially with the way things have been churning politically in the US, I have had sincere questioning around my the future of my writing work and my general safety as a result of my writing. For sure, I could go ON. But perhaps there is some room to be hopeful here as we put our heads together because I am surely not alone on any. of! these~ things.
This is an event I’ve had a small role in putting together, but it was largely developed and loved on by
Linda (npub1j60…d7ua) (who will also be speaking!) - Redefining the future of digital journalism.
Introducing user-first technologies for journalists and publishers..With the implosion of Twitter / X, new social media tools have emerged designed specifically to counteract the damages wrought by corporate owned platforms. Putting the user at the center enables a new era of audience interaction and connectivity. This event will feature journalists and technologists using and building tools for a new digital future for journalism - one in which journalists and publishers retain agency in ways that have previously been impossible in the Web 2.0 era. Topics include:
- Establishing reach outside of the algorithm-dopamine machine
- How to build one audience across multiple applications & the social web
- Experimentation with micropayments
- Censorship resistance for journalists working in authoritarian regimes
- Discourse distortion via trolls and state control
6-8pm Betaworks West Village NYC
REGISTER HERE -
https://lu.ma/p1qy049p 
Published at
2024-07-09 06:25:53Event JSON
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